It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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